Irregular shearlet frames: Geometry and approximation properties

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Abstract: Recently, shearlet systems were introduced as a means to derive efficient encoding methodologies for anisotropic features in 2-dimensional data with a unified treatment of the continuum and digital setting. However, only very few construction strategies for discrete shearlet systems are known so far. In this paper, we take a geometric approach to this problem. Utilizing the close connection with group representations, we first introduce and analyze an upper and lower weighted shearlet density based on the shearlet group. We then apply this geometric measure to provide necessary conditions on the geometry of the sets of parameters for the associated shearlet systems to form a frame for L^2(R^2), either when using all possible generators or a large class exhibiting some decay conditions. While introducing such a feasible class of shearlet generators, we analyze approximation properties of the associated shearlet systems, which themselves lead to interesting insights into homogeneous approximation abilities of shearlet frames. We also present examples, such a oversampled shearlet systems and co-shearlet systems, to illustrate the usefulness of our geometric approach to the construction of shearlet frames.


The authors study representations of the shearlet group \(\mathbb S= \mathbb R^+\times \mathbb R\times \mathbb R^2\) given by \((\sigma(a,s,t)\psi)(x)= a^{3/4} \psi(S_sA_ax-t)\), where \(A_a=\left(\begin{smallmatrix} a & 0\\ 0 & \sqrt a\end{smallmatrix}\right)\), \(S_s=\left(\begin{smallmatrix} 1 & s\\ 0 & 1\end{smallmatrix}\right)\), and \(t\in \mathbb R^2\). For each \(\psi \in L^2(\mathbb R^2)\), they define a continuous weighted shearlet system by \({\mathcal {SH}}(\psi,w)= \{w(a,s,t)^{1/2}\sigma(a,s,t)\psi: (a,s,t)\in \mathbb S\}\) and their main concern is to obtain a deep geometric understanding of the discretization process defining the shearlet system by \({\mathcal {SH}}(\psi,\Lambda,w)= \{w(a,s,t)^{1/2}\sigma(a,s,t)\psi: (a,s,t)\in \Lambda\}\) where \(\Lambda\) is a discrete subset of \(\mathbb S\). In particular, they study irregular systems where \(\Lambda\) is not of the form \(\{(a^j,bk,cm): j,k\in \mathbb Z\), \(m\in \mathbb Z^2\}\). They introduce and analyze an upper and lower weighted shearlet density and use this to prove necessary and sufficient conditions for the shearlet system to form a frame in \(L^2(\mathbb R^2)\). Then they analyze the approximation properties of the shearlet systems, in particular the homogeneous approximation abilities of shearlet frames. Examples such as oversampled shearlet systems and co-shearlet systems are presented as well.



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